Senior Software Dev Engineer, SDN

Amazon Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $168,100–$227,400 / yr
Posted: 66 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Amazon Inc. is the world''s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company, operating the Amazon marketplace, AWS cloud platform, Prime subscription services, Alexa voice AI, and logistics infrastructure. Industry: E-Commerce & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Senior Software Dev Engineer, SDN

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The Senior Software Dev Engineer, SDN, Amazon LEO joins the Software Defined Network controller team to build the brain driving a low Earth orbit satellite network. This role involves designing and delivering a modern, scalable, high throughput, and low latency network architecture. You will implement highly-available software to drive networking control plane operations on physical and virtual nodes, orchestrate on orbit payload activities, and automate processes for software development, testing, and maintenance. Key responsibilities include diagnosing routing and forwarding issues, integrating telemetry and link-state data into route computation, and developing routing behavior for topology transitions. The role requires five years of professional software development experience, expertise in design patterns, reliability, and scaling, and the ability to lead engineering teams or mentor others within a global telecom service.

Skills

SDN Network Architecture Control Plane Data Plane Telemetry Cloud Services Source Control Management Software Development Life Cycle

What you'll do

Design and deliver a scalable, high-throughput, and low-latency network architecture.
Implement workflows to orchestrate on-orbit payload activities.
Develop highly-available software to drive networking control plane operations on physical and virtual nodes.
Define and automate processes for software development, testing, and maintenance.
Diagnose routing and forwarding issues across the control plane, data plane, and physical topology.
Integrate telemetry, topology, and link-state data into route computation and control systems.
Develop routing behavior for topology transitions, node movement, and link failures.

What we're looking for

Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, refugee, or granted asylum.
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
5+ years of full software development life cycle experience (preferred).
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
Export control laws and regulations, candidates.

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